How the HAIM sisters, synagogue gift shops and a Scorsese music supervisor all helped a very modern collection of Hanukkah songs come to life.
.” That’s why I was searching for a spiritual component, which allowed me to approach artists who weren’t Jewish, who had no real sense of the holiday or the history. I tried to find balance, because I wanted to have some of that silly, joyful element.It’s not an easy one where you can say, “Hey, let’s do ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside,’ ” and set the stage for somebody to just come in and sing. My hope is if this goes well, maybe next year we do another five songs and just add to it.
One person that I really wanted to get — he said he would but just got caught up in the sweep of his new record — was Ezra Koenig.It was always the fun Jewish holiday, really. And as far as the musical repertoire [went], “The Hanukkah Song” was pretty much the favorite, or “Dreidel Dreidel.” I had a sense of it being a musical holiday, though there aren’t that many to choose from.To tell you the truth, I feel like it already is a success.
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